The Little Bank That Could


Washington has spent the years since the financial panic of 2008 targeting big banks for revenge, but as so often happens the politicians ended up shooting their smaller competitors. So congratulations to the Bank of Bird-in-Hand, which Journal reporter Ryan Tracy reports is “the only new bank to open in the U.S. since 2010, when the Dodd-Frank law was passed and enacted.” It’s based in a rural village in Amish country in Pennsylvania.

Mr. Tracy reports that the bank has 16 employees, one of whom does nothing but compliance....